[Correspondence] Biomedical research in Latin America: we can do more

March 11, 2016

The Lancet 387, 10022 (2016)

Author: Vincenzo Benedetti, Gonzalo Echeverria, Ismael Riquelme

On Nov 12, 2015, hundreds of researchers took to the streets of several cities in Chile to protest against the scarce research funding, which was only up to 0·39% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013.1 The low investment in research worries many scientists, especially biomedical researchers in Latin America.